Improvement in water cut-offs



PATE

JOHN G. DIEM, OF ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER CUT'OFFS.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,857, dated August 7, 1877 application filed June 4, 1877.

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The invention has reference to improvements in the cut-oifs for conducting the water from the roof either to the waste-pipe or cistern, so as to first cleanse the water of dust, soot, &c., and then conduct the pure rain-wai ter to the cistern, and when the same is filled again to the waste-pipe.

The invention consists of a cut-off of circular shape, having conical supply and exit pipes, separated bya tapering partition, in combination with a centrally-swinging semicircular gate, that connects the supply-pipe with either discharge-pipe.

In the drawing, A represents the cylindrical body o r main part of my improved cut-off; B, the waterentrance pipe, and O C the water-dscharge pipes, of which one is connected to the cistern, the other to the wastepipe.

The inner end of the supply-pipe B is of conically-tapering shape, While the dischargepipes O O are separated by inclined walls D D, that form a sector-shaped body, which extends into the cylindrcal main body nearly up to the center, the inclined side walls being preferably in line with the tapering end of the supply-pipe B.

A 'centrally-pivoted gate, E, with semicircular side walls E', is carried by the outer handle end of the gate-pivot a from one-half of the body A to the other, so as to bear on one side of .the supply-pipe, and rest on the correspondingly-inclined partition-wall D, con ducting thus the Water from the supply-pipe to the waste-pipe or cistern,as required, without leakage or choking, as the semicircnlar space of the main body A serves as a kind of regulator, and produces the even discharge of the water. The cylindrical shape of the cutoff imparts to the same a lighter and neater appearance, and renders the same more effective and reliable in use.

Having thus descrihed myinventionflclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improvement in water cut oifs, a cylindrical main body, A, having supply-pipe B, with conical interior end and dischargepipes O O, with inclined separating-walls, in combination With a eentrally-pivoted gate, E, having` semicircular side guide-walls E', substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN G. DIEM.

Witnesses: w

OHAs. L. FIsHER, JOHN M. WIBLING.

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